MongoDB with Wired Tiger in AWS

Some initial performance results

October 29, 2015

Goal

Set up a simple 2 Shard MongoDB 3.0 database without replication in AWS using the new WiredTiger storage engine, verify the installation and use for some basic performance tests for a customer needing fast metadata storage for a high volume 3D imaging application.

One Mongo config server only was used and 2 EC2 instances of T2-Medium size (4gb 2cpu) were used as Shard servers. A java test class was executed on the client instance connecting to localhost mongos using Mongo and Bson java drivers.